Advances in inertial confinement fusion and innovative modeling have brought nuclear fusion closer to reality, offering ...

Scientists have vastly reduced the temperatures and conditions needed to grow special diamonds for computing, making faster ...

Plasma physics is the study of charged particles and fluids interacting with self-consistent electric and magnetic fields. It is a basic research discipline that has many different areas of ...

Heating plasma to the ultra-high temperatures needed for fusion reactions requires more than turning the dial on a thermostat ...

The course aims to provide upper level undergraduate and graduate students from Physics and Engineering background in plasma physics, focusing on the fundamental physics principles, not any specific ...

Quantum field theories are powerful tools for particle physics and condensed matter physics but are rarely used in plasma physics. However, in warm-dense regimes, where matter is partially ionized and ...

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory study suggests that a Faraday screen can help achieve the extreme temperatures needed for ...

Scientists have simulated a groundbreaking solution to boost fusion efficiency by eliminating "slow modes," unhelpful waves ...

The U.S. Department of Energy has selected the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory to receive two prestigious ...

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have accelerated electrons to high energies in less than a foot using ...

Magnetic confinement fusion reactors aim to extract fusion energy by confining extremely hot plasma in strong magnetic fields. Scientists have used a pair of lasers and a supersonic sheet of gas ...